Miscellany: May 3, 1926

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Hodges

The University of Kansas was proud of Alexander Reily Hodges, star athlete. He was quarterback on the football team, second baseman of the nine, 158-pound boxing champion. He did not drink or smoke. Recently he started to work his way around the world.

Friends of his in Kansas got word that he had reached Manhattan. Then they read how an individual in that city had held up a restaurant with a dummy pistol last week, how he had fled through a theatre crowd, how a...

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